Prime Minister Helen Clark told TV One today there would be action resulting from last week’s news that officials from Saddam’s regime were living in New Zealand.

“We weren’t happy with the performance (of the New Zealand Immigration Service offices in Bangkok) at all and that’s why there are going to be a few changes.”

Asked whether it would be necessary for Immigration Service “heads to roll” over the affair, Mrs. Clark said,

“Obviously…some people in Bangkok will lose their jobs because when we bring the processing of a lot of the high risk applications back from there to New Zealand, there will be jobs here and not there.

“I’ve been pushing immigration ministers for the past two years to follow the Australian precedent and bring a lot of the offshore processing back to New Zealand.”